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Yes, I'm sure the license costs were killing them.

The article says you can pay for exchange support with gmail for business apps so I imagine it must be the license costs.

Wait wait, isn't Google an $80billion company with some of the top engineering talent on the planet?

Is this a patent issue or is it because no one else has figured out how to properly replicate that kind of functionality?

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> Is this a patent issue or is it because no one else has figured out how to properly replicate that kind of functionality?

No, the patent is an issue because of what the iOS Mail app supports for push.

Google has found out how to do it just fine on Android. But they don't control iOS. If you want a new system for e-mail pushing on iOS you need to be looking at Apple for innovation.

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